Senate Republicans accused President Joe Biden of breaking federal budget law when he ordered a halt to construction of a southern border wall and say the action contributed to a surge in illegal border crossings.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 39 other Republicans wrote a letter to the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday seeking an investigation into the president’s actions, which they allege violated a 1974 act forbidding the executive branch from refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress.
“On Jan. 20, in one of the first official acts of his presidency, Joseph Biden suspended border wall construction and ordered a freeze of funds provided by Congress for that purpose. In the weeks that followed, operational control of our southern border was compromised and a humanitarian and national security crisis has ensued,” the letter states. “The President’s actions directly contributed to this unfortunate, yet entirely avoidable scenario. They are also a blatant violation of federal law and infringe on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.”
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Trump did this by moving money TO build the wall. More proof that Republicans are hypocrites.
While it is true that Trump TRIED to transfer money, even the link in this article points out that the current status of the funding (that Biden has blocked from being spent) is as follows:
> A federal appeals court last year found the transfer illegal
and the current money actually came from the following
> The fiscal 2021 spending bill that Congress passed in December has $1.4 billion for border wall and related spending.